In our second installment of The Cato Journal’s January 2010 “Are unions good for America?” issue, we cover the second myth.
Here is The Homeland Stupidity web site’s synopsis of this myth, and a link the Cato article.
Myth Number Two: Unions bargain on behalf of their members to get employees the wages and benefits they deserve.
Fact: Unions “bargain” with the guns of government in hand, to get employees more wages and benefits than they deserve, with a little for themselves on the side. By crawling in bed with government to pass laws which benefited the unions at the expense of employers — and, in the long run, employees — union leaders have drained American businesses dry. The long, slow decline of private sector unions reflects the economic destruction they left in their wake as they searched for fresh blood to leech. And today they’ve found the biggest source yet, the government.
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